Expanding capabilities with gestures is nice and can add usability to
a device. Using them as the default way of accomplish things makes the
device very hard to use for a beginner.
Having the only way of opening a menu or something only possible if
you already know exactly what to do is a killer for usability.
I think the main goal should be that anyone can pick a device up and
use it without prior knowledge.
2008/9/24 DJDAS <djdas at djdas.net>:
> wp wrote:
>>>> What is your opinion? Say what you like, and what you don't? Make your
>> own pics, share it with us. Free the imagination!
>>>> Very very nice :)
> Why not substitute the touch for the left panel with an accel gesture
> that "slides" the panel tilting the phone?
> This could lock the panel and using other accel gestures like "up" or
> "down" (to speak like accelgest language) slide the application panels
> or something else like paper sheets.
> Touching the icons could launch the application or (in some point of the
> screen) unlock the panel and go back to the main screen.
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